{"id":104577,"date":"2017-05-30T01:14:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T05:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=104577"},"modified":"2017-05-30T01:14:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T05:14:10","slug":"union-for-workers-at-canadian-national-railway-reach-tentative-deal-to-avert-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/30\/union-for-workers-at-canadian-national-railway-reach-tentative-deal-to-avert-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Union for workers at Canadian National Railway reach tentative deal to avert strike"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Canadian National Railway (TSX:CNR) and the union representing about 3,000 employees have reached a tentative agreement to avert a Tuesday morning labour strike. (Photo: Canadian National Railway Company\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MONTREAL \u2013Canadian National Railway (TSX:CNR) and the union representing about 3,000 employees have reached a tentative agreement to avert a Tuesday morning labour strike.<\/p>\n

\u201cCN is very pleased to have reached this settlement,\u201d said its chief operating officer Mike Cory in a statement.<\/p>\n

A verbal agreement had been reached earlier in the day at about 4:15 p.m. ET, after talks resumed following an overnight round of bargaining and hours before the workers were in a legal strike position.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s always a good thing to avert a strike,\u201d said Stephane Lacroix of Teamsters Canada.<\/p>\n

The union issued a 72-hour strike notice Saturday, which meant their workers would have been in a legal strike position early Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

Details of the agreement are being withheld pending ratification by union members, a process expected to take approximately 60 days.<\/p>\n

Heading off a major rail strike is good news for the Canadian economy, said Bob Ballantyne, president of the Freight Management Association of Canada.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think all shippers that depend on CN will certainly be breathing a sigh of relief and I suspect the government will be breathing a sigh of relief as well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Ballantyne had warned that a strike would be damaging to the economies on both sides of the border and cause collateral damage to non-rail workers.<\/p>\n

A full work stoppage would have caused plant closures in the $55-billion chemicals and plastics industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the case of a complete work stoppage, it would shutter most of our businesses within 48 hours maximum,\u201d Bob Masterson, CEO of the Chemistry Industry Association of Canada, said before a deal was reached.<\/p>\n

Several large shippers had written to the federal government urging them to work to avoid a work stoppage or be prepared to order striking workers back to the table.<\/p>\n

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